Since the end of World War II a paradigm shift has occurred in armed conflict. Asymmetric, or fourth-generation warfare the challenge of nonstate belligerents to the authority and power of the state has become the dominant form of conflict, while interstate conventional war has become an increasingly irrelevant instrument of statecraft. In asymmetric conflicts the enemy is often a fellow citizen with a different vision for the future of the country waging war among the people, maneuvering on the borderlines between parliamentary politics, street politics, criminal activity, and combat...